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Dec. 6, 2012 in Nation/World
SEATTLE (AP) — Hundreds of same-sex couples across Washington state started picking up marriage licenses Thursday as a voter-approved law legalizing gay marriage took effect. King County, the state’s largest, …

Dec. 6, 2012 in Nation/World
SEATTLE (AP) — Two by two, dozens of same-sex couples obtained their marriage licenses in Washington state early Thursday, just hours after hours after Gov. Chris Gregoire signed a law …

Dec. 5, 2012 in Nation/World
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, which now joins several other states that allow gay and …
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Dec. 5, 2012 in Nation/World
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, which now joins several other states that allow gay and …

Dec. 4, 2012 in Nation/World
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two federal judges in California have arrived at opposite conclusions on whether the state’s first-of-its-kind law prohibiting licensed psychotherapists from trying to change the sexual orientations …

Dec. 3, 2012 in Nation/World
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay …

Dec. 1, 2012 in Nation/World
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Cadet Chapel, the landmark Gothic church that is a center for spiritual life at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, hosted its first same-sex …
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Nov. 30, 2012 in Health, Nation/World
WASHINGTON (AP) — The running fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court. Three weeks after voters backed same-sex marriage in three states and …

Nov. 30, 2012 in Nation/World
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A first-of-its-kind California law prohibiting licensed psychotherapists from counseling gay minors on how to become heterosexual faced its first legal test Friday as lawyers for those …

Nov. 20, 2012 in Nation/World
Ah, Thanksgiving. A little turkey, some cranberry mold, maybe apple pie with ice cream, some football on TV. Getting together with the cousins. Catching up beside the fire. Togetherness. On …
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Nov. 16, 2012 in Nation/World
NEW YORK (AP) — It took only hours for Superstorm Sandy’s surging waters to destroy an emergency drop-in center for homeless gay youths. Four feet of water swamped the hallways …

Nov. 8, 2012 in Nation/World
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has approved gay marriage, joining Maine and Maryland as the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. With about three-quarters of the …

Nov. 8, 2012 in Nation/World
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Voters in Washington state have approved gay marriage, joining Maine and Maryland as the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. Returns released since …
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Nov. 7, 2012 in Nation/World
Altering the course of U.S social policy, Maine and Maryland became the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, while Washington state and Colorado set up a showdown …

Nov. 6, 2012 in Nation/World
Voters a continent apart made history Tuesday on two divisive social issues, with Maine and Maryland becoming the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote while Washington state …
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Nov. 6, 2012 in Nation/World
Maine residents have approved same-sex marriage, giving the gay rights movement a breakthrough victory. Gay marriage is legal in six states and Washington, D.C., but those laws were either enacted …
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Nov. 2, 2012 in Nation/World
BROOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan pastor accused of beating and strangling his fiancee’s daughter to fulfill a sexual fantasy had asked church members to pray for the young …

Nov. 2, 2012 in Nation/World
BROOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — As police frantically worked to figure out how his fiancée’s 24-year-old daughter had vanished, a Michigan pastor who had turned to God to shed his …

Nov. 2, 2012 in Nation/World
BROOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A central Michigan pastor accused of beating and strangling a neighbor to fulfill a sexual fantasy was engaged to the victim’s mother and had asked …

Oct. 25, 2012 in Nation/World
LONDON, Ky. (AP) — The first U.S. prosecution under a new federal law against anti-gay violence ended with a Kentucky jury acquitting two cousins of hate-crime charges while finding them …

Oct. 24, 2012 in Nation/World
LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Two Kentucky men were acquitted of hate-crimes charges but found guilty of kidnapping late Wednesday in connection with an attack on a gay man. Prosecutors had …

Oct. 22, 2012 in Nation/World
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two upstate New York women turned away from a potential wedding site because they are gay have filed a discrimination complaint, setting up a possible precedent-setting …
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Oct. 19, 2012 in Nation/World
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gallaudet University is under fire from both proponents and opponents of gay marriage after placing an administrator on leave for signing a petition to put Maryland’s gay-marriage …

March 30, 2011 in City on Page A5
As a boy heading into high school in 1980s Spokane, Terry Miller was ready for a change. He’d been attending Northwest Christian school but was interested in something bigger, more …
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